Water Margin: I, Wang Lun, will have many children and many blessings in Liangshan.

Towards noon, the Daimyo's Mansion was largely calm.

Thousands of officers and soldiers searched around the city, but they found nothing but harassing a few ordinary people and beating up a number of local ruffians.

The Secret Intelligence Division's undercover sites are operational for at least a few months.

Or ordinary houses, or commercial ~ shops, etc.

The lurkers were serious petty merchants, craftsmen, or natives of the daimyo mansion.

Always be honest and honest, do your part.

Even if some officers and soldiers and officials came to investigate and inquire, they could not find the slightest abnormality.

Some are "dead spots", that is, uninhabited courtyard houses, bought or rented for a long time, with padlocks on the courtyard gates, covered with dust.

Dozens of people hid in underground pits within, and as long as enough food and water were prepared, no one would notice anything unusual for several months.

There are several similar hiding spots that have been prepared long before the move.

Most of the people climbed over the city wall and left, but there were still a lot of lurking people.

This is also Zhu Gui's consideration.

After a while, the city may be attacked.

Even if the morale of the officers and soldiers is defeated, it will be difficult for a fortified city like the Daimyo Mansion to storm as long as there are defenders.

At that time, hundreds of people from the Military Intelligence Department suddenly snatched the city gate from the inside......

Don't work too well.

Zhu Gui also has his own considerations.

It is not enough to lead troops to the battlefield by yourself, even if you have been practicing martial arts in the past few years, you will be at a second-rate level if you die.

There is no talent in the art of war.

Sometimes Zhu Gui is also very depressed.

After all, he is just an ordinary person.

It's quite average.

But within his limited talent, Zhu Gui also tried his best to do the best of what he was doing.

There are even many arrangements that he took the initiative to do, including the hidden personnel of the Daimyo Mansion this time, and the consideration of the evolution and development of the future battle situation.

There was one thing that Zhu Gui didn't realize either......

Under Wang Lun, everyone was confident of victory.

The thoughts and considerations of the officers and soldiers, including the idea that the bigwigs wanted to use the national strength of the Great Song Dynasty to crush Liangshan, fight with Liangshan and fight for strength, were also extremely ridiculous in the eyes of Zhu Gui and others.

These big guys who feel good about themselves and are always on top...... I'm afraid that none of them have taken into account their backs, and there is also a change in the form of war.

The era when a fleet of soldiers came to the city and could coerce a country with a few cannons came in advance in the hands of Wang Lun!

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"It's all about the spirit, the matter of the Daimyo Mansion is a shame for the Hebei Forbidden Army and the local state and county soldiers, and it has nothing to do with our Western Army!"

Han Shizhong shouted loudly, encouraging the morale of the soldiers under his command.

However, the morale was extremely low, and Han Shizhong's encouragement only made these cavalry of the Western Army barely reluctantly fold their spirits and maintain the most basic marching routes and queues, and more importantly, don't think about it.

Successive battles are unfavorable, everything is not going well, and it is impossible for morale not to fall.

The Western Army is no longer fighting with Liangshan for the initiative of cavalry, but more uses the method of mixing infantry and cavalry to open up the scope of the battlefield, set up more camps, barriers and protect the flanks and the grain routes behind them, and ensure logistics and supplies.

On the edge of several rivers, there are even more camps, and there is a camp and soldiers and horses guarding every few miles.

Along the river, there were even more garrison troops.

More than 70 percent of supplies are supplied by water...... I had to be extra cautious.

Han Shizhong's task this time was to lead hundreds of cavalry to patrol several important rivers.

The Zhanghe River, the Wei River, and the Wei Canal intersect and radiate the entire Daimyofu to Handan, and the rivers are full of boats, and a large number of military supplies are transported to the front line through these rivers.

Hundreds of thousands of civilians and nearly 300,000 troops consumed astronomical amounts.

Without the supply of these rivers and boats, the land supply would have multiplied the number of people tenfold.

Yang Guang's expedition to Goguryeo, a million-strong army, directly mobilized more than 3 million people, and indirectly related to it is afraid that there are 5 million people.

The whole north did its best for this expedition.

It's like a man walking forward on a boulder, and his whole body strength is exhausted, until he vomits blood and falls.

The entire road, ditches, embankments, and roads leading to Liaodong are full of people carrying carts. (If you read a violent novel, go to Feilu Novel Network!)

They will die of malnutrition, fatigue, disease, and fatigue one after another, and under various reasons, the already unhealthy body will deteriorate rapidly, so the corpses of these people can be seen everywhere in the entire land to Liaodong.

would rather rebel than go to Liaodong to send people's heads, which is also a true portrayal of the tragic situation at that time.

The consumption of a unified dynasty in foreign wars is extremely terrifying.

The Han Wu conquered the Xiongnu, and each time it was necessary to mobilize an army of more than 100,000 or 200,000 people.

The supporting people have to be millions.

There are also millions of people involved.

A large amount of manpower and material resources were tilted towards the war, the accumulated wealth was rapidly depleted, and the number of deaths also increased significantly.

During the late period of the Han Dynasty, he had to suspend the war, and the next round of edicts admitted his mistakes, with the temperament of the Han Dynasty, the edict was a last resort, but when he was forced to commit the edict, it is conceivable what the Han Empire was already like at that time.

Wealth is depleted.

Half the account.

With the means of the Han Dynasty and the execution of the imperial court, there is no reason such as shadyu, that is, the real household registration has been halved.

And at such a big price, in the end, the Xiongnu were still there, which was also the reason why Han Wu had to be guilty.

After decades of fighting, the Han army's martial arts are impressive.

But the steppe was still occupied by the Xiongnu. []

There are still Xiongnu tribes disturbing the border, burning, killing and looting.

If the result of decades of fighting is like this, in addition to the achievement of the imperial majesty of the Han Emperor himself and the merits of Wei, Huo and others, what will ordinary people think in their hearts?

In addition to occasional wars on the border, there was no major expedition or heavy conscription, and there were few things in the court, so the local government would not arbitrarily control the people.

Quiet, peaceful, affluent.

As an ordinary person, he must still be willing to live in Wenjing.

The magnificence of the Han Dynasty is good to watch on TV, and in it, you will either die in the battle to conquer the Dawan Tianma, or die in the ditch as a civil husband, or be detained because you can't pay heavy taxes......

The world harasses, and the people are resentful, this is the congenital embarrassment and chronic disease that the logistics of the farming nation cannot guarantee.

By the time of the Song Dynasty, and even in the Ming Dynasty, there were very few cases of large-scale wars halving the hukou.

There is no embarrassment that the supply of Chang'an was insufficient in the Tang Dynasty, and the Son of Heaven had to take hundreds of officials to take turns to eat in Chang'an and Luoyang.

The main reason has to be counted in the development of water conservancy.

Kaifeng is located in the heart of the Central Plains, built along the river, although it is not conducive to defense, but it is conducive to water conservancy.

The rivers are crisscrossed, supplies are transported, and the army is mobilized very quickly.

When encountering a master, you can constantly concentrate your strength to attack the enemy, so as to always suppress the enemy with a strong attitude.

This is the case with Zhu Wen.

The weak are in Kaifeng, which is a place where there is no danger to defend and four battles.

In Kaifeng, the master is using the waterway and sufficient manpower to constantly crush the enemy.

In addition, there is the main river of the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal, which is connected from north to south, and the exchange of materials and personnel is not as difficult as before the Sui.

The battle in front of us, from top to bottom, is to understand how important the river is to this war.

Not only are there fixed camps on both sides of the river, and soldiers and horses are stationed there.

There were also warships of the water battalion on the river.

Both the Western Army and the State and County Armies would send cavalry, which would gather and patrol along the river.

Han Shizhong's mission this time was to follow the Zhangshui Trail to the Yellow River, patrol along the river for a few days, and then turn back.

The meaning of the top brass of the Western Army is also obvious, and it is determined that the confrontation with attrition will be used as a means to defeat the Liangshan Army, and logistics will be the top priority.

As long as the rear is stabilized, this battle is a sure win.